Lead Product Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

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Closes in 4 days Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CANew York, NY
Salary
$165,600–$222,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
16 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 31, 2026 (soon)

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This role pays less than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$216,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $194k versus about $193k for comparable roles.

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About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified global entertainment and media enterprise operating in segments including Disney Parks, Experiences and Products; Entertainment (ABC, Hulu, Disney+); and ESPN. Industry: Entertainment & Media

The Walt Disney Company currently has 90 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $150,900–$202,400 across 90 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Product Software Engineer

The Lead Product Software Engineer joins the Product Engineering team to build an analytics platform for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. You will lead major projects across the full stack, developing agentic analytics experiences where users can use natural language to explore data via AI agents. Your daily work involves building a performance-tuned React front end, Node.js services, and integration layers over BI and data-warehouse stacks. You will utilize TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and Java to create configuration-driven systems that allow dashboards to ship through CI validation rather than bespoke code. Key responsibilities include architecting high-leverage decisions for rendering, caching, and state, while ensuring high-cardinality views load fast. You will also mentor engineers and establish technical standards for agentic engineering workflows and data-rich dashboard performance.

What you'll do

  • Design and deliver agentic analytics experiences including natural-language dashboard authoring and AI-generated insights.
  • Build semantic, machine-readable representations of metrics and implement evaluation guardrails for trustworthy AI output.
  • Lead projects end-to-end by distilling ambiguous requirements into clear technical specifications and architectural designs.
  • Develop full-stack solutions including React front ends, Node.js services, and data-integration layers.
  • Engineer configuration-driven systems that allow new dashboards and metrics to ship via configuration rather than bespoke code.
  • Optimize data fetching, caching, and streaming rendering to ensure high-cardinality views load fast at scale.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews and pairing while driving the evolution of team engineering practices.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant full-stack web applications serving millions of users and requests.
  • Regular practitioner of agentic software development using AI coding agents and agent-driven workflows.
  • Track record of delivering production agentic analytics solutions built on LLMs or agents.
  • Expert-level command of React, TypeScript, and JavaScript with strong Node.js skills.
  • Proven track record of architecting sophisticated technical changes and driving cross-team consensus.
  • Experience defining and implementing API specifications in collaboration with service and back-end teams.
  • Strong performance-engineering fundamentals for data-heavy or high-traffic systems.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software or Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field.

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